Kenzo Takada Home For Sale

Japanese-born couturier Kenzo Takada is asking for his custom-built Parisian mansion

In a historic district on the Right Bank between the Place de la Bastille and the Place des Vosges, the roughly 13,000-square-foot house is inspired by traditional Japanese design with glass walls overlooking a central bamboo garden and a façade of exotic wood.The four-level home has loft-like spaces with paper screens and tatami mats, as well as a small pool off a living room. There are five bedrooms, a planted garden with a fish pond, and three staff apartments with a separate entrance.